Facing the axe

Bangladesh mulls major felling drive in the Sundarbans area

Amazonian logging gang busted

Concrete loss

Why zoonotic diseases are fast spreading to humans

Infectious diseases that were once confined to animals in forests are now attacking human beings, at a faster pace

Deforestation and the weakening monsoon in India

A recent study by IIT Bombay says that deforestation and conversion of forest to crop land has weakened the monsoon in India. The study was …

Earth Day 2016: Tree tale

The conflict between humans and trees has become starker. Since humans have pushed trees out of conducive habitats, trees can now be seen growing …

When the water begins to stink

...Yet another rainforest disappears and a way of life dies as "development" catches up with the Guaranis of Paraguay

If you want to read a book

...the near universal necessity of being the owner of a book to read it needs immediate and drastic revision

A motley crew of forest protectors

In Karnataka's Kodagu district, a group of people battling timber traders trying to exploit their region's virgin forests has earned the wrath of …

Star-cross in Nigeria

NGOs and the Cross River state government are locked in a duel over the latter's plans to grant logging concessions to a Chinese metal company in …

Law for the jungle

Supreme Court passes an interim order banning commercial activities in all forest areas

The beetle and the bureaucrat

Eleven lakh sal trees face the axe in order to exterminate a beetle that is boring a hole into the image of the forest bureaucracy

Kenya gets tree-planting holiday to plant 100 million seedlings

Kenya has plans to plant 15 billion trees in 10 years

Simply Put: The shrinking umbrella

Simply Put: What would Noah do today

World's largest eagle unable to feed its young due to deforestation

Unlike other eagles, Harpy eagles cannot effectively hunt in a non-forest environment

Squirrels now use plastic to build their nests

In urban areas, trees are scarce but plastic material is not

Barren horizon

Inverted camouflage

Not all green is healthy

KAMPUCHEA

Viper wiper

Lost in the deep woods

Himalayan plunder

Tourism has wreaked havoc on Sikkim's natural resources

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